babydraco

( The Green Room )

Pilot pt 1, Pilot pt 2

So I'm doing these. Um, not every episode of the entire series, because it ran for 10 years, usually with a full season's order of 22-30 episodes. Many of those episodes are NOT worth talking about and get increasingly less interesting to me. Nor do people have to comment, I'm just trying to keep my brain moving on days when I should be writing better things but don't feel like it.

I've also been taking screenshots of some of their more insane outfits.

Anyhoozle.

( Pilot pt 1 )

I was and still am, a HUGE Buffyverse fan. I found Firefly enjoyable but not life changing. After that, I pretty much drifted off because Whedon didn't seem to have anything interesting left to say all on his own and his increased anti religion soap boxing obviously bothered me a lot.

I do believe he's a sincere feminist, and I don't see any misogyny in his work except where he's included it to say "hey, this is misogyny and it's a bad thing". People have this tendency to define imperfect feminism as the same thing as misogyny. And that leaves everyone in a position where you can't make a human mistake, because that instantly makes you a monster who hates women. There's no sense of proportion at all. I imagine this makes it hard for male feminists, who simply don't understand certain things because they happen to be men and are therefore more likely to put their feet in their mouths and never be allowed to live it down. Ever. Male artists who openly portray misogyny in their work are often accused of being misogynists themselves, even if "misogyny exists and is a bad thing" is the entire fricking point of the story they're trying to tell. Whedon doesn't really pull any punches when he uses misogyny as a plot device, and that confuses people, because if you don't know he's trying for feminism, it looks from the outside like he personally has a raging hatred for women. Because that's what we're used to seeing in other male writers and directors.

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As I said, the writers and set designers are clearly fans of this story, and scholars who did their homework.

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( Make It Or Break It S1xE7 “Run, Emily, Run )


If you tried what Sasha just tried on a student in real life, they would probably leave and never come back. Which is why that sort of strategy is more than a little iffy.

Make It or Break It S1xE1 “Pilot”
( ”Pilot” )